I remember the first time I met Dan Willingham. I had just joined the Core Knowledge Foundation and Dan, a board member and esteemed University of Virginia cognitive scientist, was giving a talk at ...

This week marks the third anniversary of the launching of AEI Education’s Conservative Education Reform Network (CERN). And it has been quite the three years for the conservative education reform ...

School privatization efforts are making dangerous advances in states like Florida and Arizona. Neoliberal education reforms that have degraded public schools, from high-stakes testing to corporatized ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Several years ago, fresh from my South Bronx fifth-grade classroom and still feeling my way through the unfamiliar world of public ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Standards-based reform” in the heyday of the education reform movement was a bit like the title of a recent film: Everything ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The following essay is an adapted excerpt from Corey A. DeAngelis' new ...

Steven Wilson's The Lost Decade1 is not just a book—it's a requiem. It's a mournful recounting of a moment when the education-reform movement, particularly the no excuses charter school model, ...

Ruth Batson's grassroots organizing in the education reform movement led to the creation of the METCO program, which has provided better educational opportunities for students of color since ...

Diane Ravitch is one of the biggest turncoats in education policy history, and American education is better for it. She tells the story in her newest book, her memoir An Education. From humble ...